Three fourths of the homes and farms that stand in the name of the actual occupants have been bought on time, and a very large proportion of them are mortgaged for the payment of some part of the purchase money.
Under this provision the General Government, with the concurrence of three fourths of the Legislatures of the States, has an authority that no State government has.
Most boilers are made of plates three eighths of an inch thick, and the rivets are from three eighths to three fourths of an inch in diameter.
The valve rod is three fourths of an inch in diameter, and the mortice is connected to the valve rod by a socket 1 inch long, and 1-1/8 inch diameter, through which a small cutter passes.
The ruined city near San Juan was described in 1786, by Sr Canete, as covering an area of one league by three fourths of a league, surrounded by walls of hewn stone laid without mortar, five to eight feet high and very thick.
The largest of the three parts shown is four feet long and two and three fourths feet in diameter.
They are two varas high and three fourths of a vara wide.
VII-62] Three fourths of a league westward from the village is a hill some six hundred feet in height, with precipitous sides naturally inaccessible save on one side, toward Mitla.
Two cups of white sugar (teacups), three fourths cup of sweet milk, one half a tablespoonful of washed butter.
Apply heat to the flask until the coloured liquid it contains is reduced to three fourths of its original bulk.
Under ordinary circumstances, you would be justified in claiming from one half to three fourths of the value of this vessel.
But now the skipper was in great trouble because two thirds or three fourths of the remaining value of his property was to be decreed to the salvors by a maritime court.
The Dutch captain is much troubled about the salvage on his vessel, for the Belgian pilot told him the Josephine would be entitled to two thirds orthree fourths of the property saved," continued Paul.
About seven eighths of the women employed in our mill are Americans; one half would be the nearer proportion in mills generally in this section, three fourths in some instances.
A short time ago, we counted in the New York Herald eight columns of situations wanted, three fourths of which were by female domestics.
A majority of the States could not introduce amendments, nor yet were all the States required; three fourths of them must concur in alterations; and this constituted a departure from the federal idea.
But we have allowed a whole day in a hundred years, whereas we ought to have allowed only three fourths of a day.
This small fraction would amount in one hundred years to three fourths of a day, and in one thousand years to more than seven days.
In order to secure this result Binet found that his data seemed to require the location of an individual test in that year where it was passed by about two thirds to three fourths of unselected children.
Correspondingly, those who tested minus at the first test advanced only about three fourths of a year in mental age during the interval.
If, in our supposed case, the test was passed by about two thirds to three fourths of the normal children aged 7 years, it was considered by Binet a test of 7-year intelligence.
The test is passed by approximately half of "average adults" and by three fourths of "superior adults.
The Araguaia, its main branch, is, according to Castelnau, one mile wide, with a current of three fourths of a mile an hour.
Three fourths of Brazil, one half of Bolivia, two thirds of Peru, three fourths of Ecuador, and a portion of Venezuela are watered by this river.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three fourths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
